Karen Armstrong diakui sebagai seorang ahli agama-agama, yang sangat menekuni fenomena munculnya radikalisme-fundamentalisme keagamaan. Dalam buku ini, dia dengan sangat baik menelusuri kembali jantung budaya dan peradaban agama-agama ‘pra-Ibrahim’, pada era Aksial (900-200 SM).” - Prof. M. Amin Abdullah, Rektor UIN Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta Kita hidup dalam masa transformasi sosial …
Travel through time and discover the people and events that have shaped our world. [quoted from the back cover of the book.]
For everyone who loves the movies, "Behind the Scenes: A Young Person's Guide to Film History, Vol. 1" reveals an exciting glimpse behind the screen and introduces filmmakers, screen icons and their most memorable movies. This book focuses on Charlie Chaplin. As an impoverished youth in London, Charlie transformed into the most recognizable movie star in the world. With oversized shoes, a too-t…
Bill Gates, born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955, is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. In this Who Was...? biography, children will learn of Gates' childhood passion for computer technology, which led him to revolutionize personal computers. Through the success of his now-world-famous software company, Microsoft, Bill Gates became one of the wealthiest philanth…
Not so long ago, writes Jeremy Paxman, the English were "polite, unexcitable, reserved, and had hot-water bottles instead of a sex-life". Today the end of empire has killed off the Bulldog Breed - "fearless and philistine, safe in taxis and invaluable in shipwrecks" - and transformed the great public schools. Princess Diana was mourned with the effusive emotionalism of an Italian saint.